Bailey Gear List

The Bailey Traverse (Olympic National Park) Gear List Summer 2010 Carrie’s Pack Alex’s Pack Jerry’s Pack Sleeping bag Tent bivey sack Sleeping Mat Sleeping bag/blanket sleeping bag 2 fuel canisters Sleeping mat foam pad Rain jacket Stove back-up stove Rain pants 2 Fuel canisters 4 Fuel canisters 2 Water bottles and/or 1 bottle/1 bladder Water …

Ski Gear

I started snowboarding on a used Rosignol with strap bindings. I was looking for a backcountry tool and before I could even really ride I started experimenting with plate bindings and plastic ski-mountaineering and climbing boots.  I eventually learned to make turns in my Scarpas, but they were never really satisfactory.  I couldn’t get around …

Gear

BIKING ISN’T THE ONLY SPORT THAT REQUIRES A LOT OF GEAR CERTAIN FRIENDS CALL ME A GEARHEAD

2024 Copenhagen

From August 23rd to September 10th, 2024, Jerry and Odette rode a couple of loops on the tandem in Denmark and visited Copenhagen with Will. why Denmark Odette and I had talked for years about a trip to Scandinavia.  She’s never seen the northern lights and I’m curious about the fjords.  Last winter we started thinking …

2024 Bend Bikeways

From May 15th to May 22nd Jerry and Odette rode day trips on the tandem out of Bend, Oregon.               Back around the beginning of 2024 Odette and I settled on a tandem trip to Scandinavia in 2024 – the thinking being that we ought to get in some …

2022 Mallorca

Between November 5 and November 19 Jerry and Odette biked on Mallorca and visited museums in Madrid At the end of our summer trip to Alsace and Berlin I thought we had agreed to take a non-bike trip somewhere warm, instead of our usual ski trip.  I put in a plug for Mallorca because I’d …

Lummi Island

On May 22 – 25, 2021,  Jerry and Odette rode from home in Seattle to La Conner and on to Lummi Island, then over to Whidby Island and eventually back home I rode a lot during the pandemic, moving at bicycle speed outdoors when everyone else was quarantined  seemed pretty safe and it gave me …

2019: Ibis ==> Rohloff

The Continuing Conversion of The Ibis Here is the story of the acquisition of our Ibis Forte, it’s restoration and the later upgrade of the drivetrain to a Rene Herse 10-speed triple. Here is a post about shearing off the tabs on that Rene Herse spider. Here is a series of posts about converting a …

2019 Mazama Ride

here’s the original letter:   Mazama 2019:  June 29-30          Marblemount-to-Mazama (and back) RIDE INSTRUCTIONS     To get to Marblemount from Seattle:  2-hour drive Two ways to get to Marblemount: Take I-5 to Arlington. At Hwy. 530, go east. At Darrington, continue north on Hwy 530, then turn east on Hwy 20 at Rockport. …